Koven Smith quoted In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment …
History, in contrast to the archive with its “overabundance of life,” has a narrow throat: it only has need of one or two examples, two or three enlarged details. The archive returns us to the single unit, the one-off nature of every unfamiliar event.
— In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale (29%)